Talk:飛行機

Japanese 1908 attestation

@Poketalker, Eirikr https://lab.ndl.go.jp/dl/fulltext?from=220&sort=publishyear%3Aasc&keyword=飛行機 produces works predating 1908, and its predecessor(?) https://kotobank.jp/word/空中飛行機・空中飛行器-2030989 has a quote from 1891 in the 精選版 日本国語大辞典. Does the 1908 date specifically refer to the modern airplane or something? Or did the compilers just not have the Power of Modern Computing(TM) on their side? —Fish bowl (talk) 05:29, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

@Fish bowl:

After a couple 503 "Service Unavailable" errors, I got the NDL site to load. It looks like most of those are hits on the substring 飛行機 as part of 空中飛行機. Some aren't, though. If we can secure a good example that isn't just a scanno (which a couple look like they might be), we should certainly list that as an earlier citation date.

Re: the 1908 date listed in the KDJ entry here, I believe that's intended by the KDJ editors to be the earliest example they had found of this term used as a standalone, and not part of a longer lexical item. However, I don't know when the KDJ editors last searched, so it's entirely possible that the examples you've linked above just weren't found by the KDJ editors. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 07:47, 25 March 2022 (UTC)